. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 20, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 183 ins, somimes as many as 2s or 30, and were coated on the outside with clay. Hives consistiriff of several separate chanibcra were used in Sweden and Knj^'^Iaiul diirinfj the 17th and IHlli centuries. J. U. Christ, of Nassau, describes such hivos in 1783. He also made use of the bar in connection with the separate honey-chamber (super). Keaumur made many valuable discoveries regarding' the natural history of the bee in his one-comb hive <lurinp the forepart of the IHth century. The blind Rubor unite
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 20, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 183 ins, somimes as many as 2s or 30, and were coated on the outside with clay. Hives consistiriff of several separate chanibcra were used in Sweden and Knj^'^Iaiul diirinfj the 17th and IHlli centuries. J. U. Christ, of Nassau, describes such hivos in 1783. He also made use of the bar in connection with the separate honey-chamber (super). Keaumur made many valuable discoveries regarding' the natural history of the bee in his one-comb hive <lurinp the forepart of the IHth century. The blind Rubor united a number of such combs—re(,'ular frames—by hinjje- iug them tof^other. Thus he constructed a hive which could be opened like the leaves of a book. Pina introduced a siraplilied Huber hive into Austria, and wrote a work on bee-keepinj; soon afterward. Propokowitz, a Russian, is said to have used a hive with a separate honey-chamber filled with regular Lang- stroth frames as early as 1X12. We observe, then, that (ienius has been at work a long time on the problem of how to make the combs of the bee- hive movable, and get the most out of bees, even before L/angstroth and Dzierzon were born. And, after all, had it not been for Langstroth and Dzierzon—although we may not make use of the exact appliances as they gave them to the world—we might be to-day using the old box-hive, and know but little more about bees than was known a hundred years ago. Ontario N. Y. No. 2-Desirability of Lon§-Tongued Bees. BV I'KOF. J. COOK. It is patent from m^* last article, that the length of the tongue varies in different bees, and very markedly in those of different races. It is also important to remember that the bees of the same race, and notably those of the same colony, vary but very little, as compared with those of dif- ferent races and in different colonies. The yellow races possess the longest tongues, and the Cyprian and Syrian bees stand in the lead in this peculi
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